These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Brian A'Hearn (Franklin and Marshall College)

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM

Sunday, January 6, 8:00 AM
Session: Height, Health and Economic Development (AEA)
Presiding: Anne Case (Princeton University)

Height and Cognitive Function
Anne Case (Princeton University)
Christina Paxson (Princeton University)

Height, health and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India
Angus Deaton (Princeton University)
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Inequality in Height and Inequality in Living Standards: Historical Evidence from Italy
Franco Peracchi (Universita di Roma)
Giovanni Vecchi (Universita di Roma)
Brian A'Hearn (Franklin and Marshall College)


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The Huffington Post reports on a study addressing the influence of lifestyle factors on shrinking height in the elderly published in the April issue of AEJ: Applied Economics.

Michael Frakes' (Cornell Law School) article on medical liability standards from the February issue of the American Economic Review was discussed as part of a Bloomberg opinion piece on medical malpractice.

Slate Magazine recently discussed former AEA president, George Akerlof's classic behavioral research and a 2012 American Economic Review study conducted by German and Swiss researchers to explore how gifting can motivate some employees more than cash incentives do in the workplace.

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